Publications by authors named "Lydia Gau"
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- The Altai region in southern Siberia is significant for the migration of peoples into northern Asia and is believed to be a potential homeland for ancestral Native Americans, with human habitation dating back to the Paleolithic era.
- Current inhabitants include diverse Turkic-speaking ethnic groups, categorized into northern and southern clusters based on cultural and linguistic traits.
- Genetic studies of mtDNA and Y chromosome variations reveal distinct ancestral ties: northern Altaians align more with northern Siberian groups, while southern Altaians show closer genetic links to other Turkic populations and present evidence of a common ancestry with Native Americans.
Discovered in the early 16th century by European colonists, Bermuda is an isolated set of islands located in the mid-Atlantic. Shortly after its discovery, Bermuda became the first English colony to forcibly import its labor by trafficking in enslaved Africans, white ethnic minorities, and indigenous Americans. Oral traditions circulating today among contemporary tribes from the northeastern United States recount these same events, while, in Bermuda, St.
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